Ninja Slayer From Animation Episode 1 - Animenewsnetwork

Animenewsnetwork - American mass media of the early 1980s had a fascination with ninjas and ninjitsu, and Kosugi, an actor and martial artist, was often at the center of that fascination. Be it as Lee van Cleef's TV adversary in The Master, shadowy bad guy Hasegawa in Cannon Films' classic Enter the Ninja, or even a vengeance-seeking antihero in the film Pray for Death, Kosugi was one of the first—and easily the most recognizable—to take up the katana, shuriken, and snappy black outfit and really sell the idea of ninjas to the American public.